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...such an enduring?and ultimately appealing?politician was his obdurate self-belief, a refusal to be bound by the constraints of negotiated agreements or ideology. Whatever Sharon did, he was at least as devoted to the fight as to the cause. That is what made him one of the greatest???some peers say the greatest???military commander in Israeli history. It's what enabled him, from a variety of Cabinet posts, to construct settlements in the face of international opprobrium. But it's also what allowed him not only to evacuate Gaza but, 23 years earlier, to tear down settlements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lonely Warrior | 1/9/2006 | See Source »

...universities of the land last week, one of the grand old men of U. S. pedagogy lay dying of cerebral arteriosclerosis, diabetes, and heart disease, in a sickroom close by the campus of the university which he began building 40 years ago to be one of the country's greatest???Stanford of California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Farm | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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